Welcome to 'Global Public Life', an open forum extending the discussions and debates that the academic, peer-reviewed journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society (and associated Theory, Culture & Society Book Series) have been fostering in social and cultural theory, along with the wider social sciences and humanities, for over four decades.

Journal News: March 2025
Journal News: March 2025

Journal News: Annual Review

Thanks to Reviewers

TCS E-Special Issue: Judith Butler
Edited by Elena Loizidou

Journal News: March 2024
Journal News: November 2023

Journal News: Annual Review

Thanks to Reviewers

Journal News: November 2023
Journal News: November 2023

TCS Special Issue: ‘Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien’
Edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li

TCS Special Issue: ‘Foucault before the Collège de France’
Edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini

Journal News: Annual Review
Latest issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society

Jürgen Habermas & the Digital Transformation of the Political Public Sphere
By Rainer Winter and Sunil Manghani

Thanks to Reviewers

Journal News: October 2022

Journal News: September 2022

TCS Special Issue: ‘A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?’
Edited by Martin Seeliger and Sebastian Sevignani

B&S Special Issue: ‘Symmetries of Touch’
Special Issue: Edited by Rebekka Ladewig and Henning Schmidgen

Journal News: May 2022

TCS Special Issue: ‘Solid Fluids’
Special Issue: Edited by Tim Ingold and Cristián Simonetti

Journal News: January 2022
TCS Special Issues
Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien, edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li
Foucault before the Collège de France, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?, edited by Martin Seeliger & Sebastian Sevignani
Solid Fluids, edited by Tim Ingold & Cristián Simonetti
Post-Neoliberalism?, edited by William Davies & Nicholas Gane
Problematizing the Problematic, edited by Martin Savransky
From the Archive
James Ash on Affective Transmission (2004)
Marcelo Hoffman on Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues: Michel Foucault in Brazil (2017)
Rosi Braidotti: ‘Posthuman, All Too Human: Towards a New Process Ontology’ (2006)
TCS E-Special Issues
TCS Book Series
B&S Special Issues
Symmetries of Touch: Reconsidering Tactility in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, edited by Rebekka Ladewig & Henning Schmidgen
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World, edited by Andrew Russell & Rebecca Oxley
The Body in Pain: A Re-engagement, edited by Leila Dawney & Timothy J Huzar
Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body’s Surfaces, edited by Marc Lafrance
Indeterminate Bodies, edited by Claire Waterton & Kathryn Yusoff
Surveillance and Embodiment: Dispositifs of Capture, edited by Martin French & Gavin JD Smith